Mediterranean Studies Association
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Mediterranean Studies Association Newsletter
no. 7 
December 2009
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in this issue
Salamanca Hotel Information
MSA and IMS sign MOU
Books by Members
Salamanca Hotel Information 
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As noted in the last Newsletter the hotel situation in Salamanca this May will be challenging because of a large medical conference being held concurrently. To help alleviate this situation the MSA has reserved 28 rooms at the Ibis Hotel, a 15-minute walk from the University. While information on prices and the reservation process was included in the last Newsletter, we have some additional information.
 
ONE-BED ROOMS. The one-bed rooms are a double bed that may be used as a double or a single, same price.       
 
TWO-BED ROOMS. The two-bed rooms include a double bed and a single bed. They may be used as a double or triple. The price for use as a triple is an additional $20.00 per-night over the single/double rate.
 
One third of the rooms have already been reserved so we urge you to not delay; rooms will be very difficult to find in the city in late May.
 
We hope you find this information helpful and if you have questions you can contact
Ben Taggie at:
E-mail: Btaggie@umassd.eduPhone: 508 264 4854

 
MSA and IMS sign MOU 
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MOU
 
MSA Director Richard Clement was invited to deliver the keynote address at a recent conference sponsored by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies at Pusan University of Foreign Studies in Busan, South Korea. On September 25, 2009, he spoke on "The Mediterranean: What, Why, How?"
 
At the conference Clement signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Exchange and Cooperation for the MSA and Professor and Director Byoung Joo Hah signed for the Institute for Mediterranean Studies. Both institutions have agreed to promote the following personal and material exchanges and cooperative programs:
-         Development of joint programs.
-         Exchange of academic information.
-         Joint symposia, seminars and other cooperative programs.
-         Reciprocal visits of scholars.
 
We look forward to working with our colleagues in the IMS and welcoming a number of Korean scholars to the Salamanca Congress.
 

MOU
Books by Members 
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MSA member Jutta Sperling, co-edited with Shona Kelly Wray:

Across the Religious Divide: Women, Property, and Law in the Wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800) (Routledge, 2009).  ISBN: 978-0-415-99586-3

This volume investigates women's property rights in Latin, Greek-Orthodox, Jewish, Coptic, and Muslim communities all over the Mediterranean, with a particular emphasis on Italy. It argues that differences in women's property rights were not necessarily the result of religious difference. Women all over the Meditteranean engaged in similar forms of agency to acquire and maintain property in their respective male-dominated societies.  Differences in access to property between women in Portugal and Italy, or between rural and urban women in the Ottoman Empire, were more pronounced than those among upper-class women of Venice, Cairo, and Istanbul.  In proposing a new approach to feminist historical scholarship of the Mediterranean, this book seeks to recast the question of difference and to overcome the traditional focus on religious divisions.
 
Do you have a recently published book we might feature? Let us know: richard.clement@usu.edu